Nonfiction
Beyond These Walls – Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto
This is the vivid and compelling autobiography of Janina Bauman, a young Jewish girl (the same age as Anne Frank)…
English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
The cover of this slim, informative volume suggests at first glance something in the spirit of A’Beckett’s The Comic History…
Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization
If you have some disposable income, Flushed, Hodding Carter’s tribute to the “humble plumber,” is a fun, yet informative, way…
Pompeii: The Living City
Beginning in 54 AD, twenty-five years before Vesuvius rained ash and death, Pompeii covers the life of the city through…
La Dame d’Esprit: A Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet
Gabrielle Emelie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was indeed a woman of ésprit, a bright star among…
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
This biography with a twist follows the life of Marie Antoinette from her childhood in Austria to her execution in…
Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age
At the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC, the Persian king Artaxerxes II defeated his brother Cyrus’s challenge to his…
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
This book will sit on my reference shelf as an extremely useful source of information about Rome and the Roman…
The Trojan War: A New History
This is a wonderful book that will enchant neophytes as well as enthusiasts of the subject. Cornell University professor Barry…
The Concord Quartet
In the 1830s Concord, Massachusetts, was only a small farming town, but it managed to attract the most extraordinary minds…
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